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First do no harm : the paradoxical encounters of psychoanalysis, warmaking, and resistance / edited by Adrienne Harris, Steven Botticelli.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Relational perspectives book series ; v. 45.
- The relational perspectives book series ; v. 45
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Psychological aspects.
- War.
- War victims--Psychology.
- War victims.
- Psychoanalysis--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Psychology, Military.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- At the outset of World War I - the ""Great War"" - Freud supported the Austro-Hungarian Empire for which his sons fought. But the cruel truths of that bloody conflict, wrought on the psyches as much as the bodies of the soldiers returning from the battlefield, caused him to rethink his stance and subsequently affected his theory: Psychoanalysis, a healing science, could tell us much about both the drive for war and the ways to undo the trauma that war inherently breeds, but its principles could just as easily serve the enemy's desires to inculcate its own brand of ""truth.""Even a ce
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Psychoanalysis and antiwar work : healing
- pt. 2. The paradox : psychology's militarism
- pt. 3. War and militarism deconstructed
- pt. 4. Resistance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-84295-7
- 1-135-84296-5
- 1-283-04576-1
- 9786613045768
- 0-203-88519-8
- 9780203885192
- OCLC:
- 707067619
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